Daniel Marcus
Of Counsel 
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Member of the New York Bar

Dan is a well-traveled entrepreneur, lawyer, and professor who started his career out of his NYU dorm  room when he founded his first company, SeatSwap. As the company was writing its first lines of code,  he was offered a full scholarship to law school and proceeded to bootstrap SeatSwap to the point of  acquisition while pursuing his JD as a full-time law student. After law school, Dan started a production  company called Relentless which develops media properties (podcasts, TV shows, documentaries, etc)  around prominent sports figures/personalities including Ozzie Guillen, Nick Mangold, David Falk, Spice  Adams, and Major League Baseball’s All-Time Hit King, Pete Rose for whom Dan personally developed  and sold his gambling podcast which you can now find on Quake Media.  

In 2019, Dan was selected as a Founder In Residence for the inaugural US cohort of a global startup  incubator called Antler, where he developed novel legal tech product in the span of three weeks. When  Covid-19 descended upon New York, Dan spent the better part of a year and a half working closely with  the C-Suite of a company that was attempting to develop a novel Covid-19 diagnostic leveraging the  underlying colorimetric chemistry that formed the basis of Polaroid’s instant photography technology.  Around that same time, Dan started his own law practice that caters to clients across the worlds of sports  and entertainment, Web-3, startups, technology, and biotech. As an attorney, Dan functions as the outside  general counsel for an array of clients including the aforementioned Spice Adams, the sports AI company,  StatMuse, the Rugby Football League, Playrs Holdings, Goal Acquisition Corp, etc. Dan was also  involved as the attorney for a number of prominent NFT projects such as Nuclear Nerds and Punks  Comics.  

In connection with his law practice Dan serves as a legal advisor and mentor to prominent family offices,  investment funds, and startup accelerators including the Adidas family office accelerator, leAD, Techstars,  and Antler. Dan is often called upon to help diligence and structure complex transactions in sports  including the buying and selling of sports teams or franchises. 

Dan is also an adjunct professor in his alma mater program, the Tisch Institute for Global Sport at NYU  where he teaches a number of sports-related law courses, and a class entitled the Business of Esports. In  addition to being a professor at NYU, he is a frequent speaker at universities and investment  conferences around the world and has spoken at Princeton, Duke Law School, Charleston School of Law,  and the University of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland.  

Previously, Dan served as a columnist for Forbes where he covered the intersection of sports, business,  and entrepreneurship and now enjoys a similar role for Kevin Durant’s media platform Boardroom, where  he primarily analyzes sports law issues and matters.